What is "fiftyish"

Usage examples of "fiftyish".

Henschel, a fat, fiftyish man with a check shirt and a pot belly, opened the living-room door for them.

Standing at stiff attention, the fiftyish guardsman snapped his answer.

Graig was a man not much his junior, a fiftyish fellow with dark hair and a brightly-colored cape caked with the dust of the road.

Two fiftyish men emerged from the vehicle, while children scrambled out of various openings and hatches, dropping beside the tall treads.

Miss Knapp was fiftyish, thin, refined and with a tongue as sharp as her equally sharp nose.

The violence with which the fiftyish redhead scolded Bujak about his appearance made it plain to me that there was a romantic attachment.

A nondescript, voluminous brown mackintosh, a trilby hat perched on the bar next to his pint, shiny bootspolished until they gleamed like ebonyand a plump, reddish, fiftyish face, framing bright brown eyes and a big, bushy, wild moustachethe only un-neat thing about the man.

A fat, fiftyish woman in a flowery apron, grey hair pinned up in a bun, stood by a large cast-iron cooker, the like of which Cal had not seen before.

He sized Marta up quickly: fiftyish, good facial bones, athletic or at least in good physical shape, married, out by herself, husband with the Fleet.

Jimmy and I are soon talking about Stuart Shaw, the fiftyish caddy and Royal Dornoch member who has won the Carnegie Shield and many other northern tournaments with his homemade swing.

Fiftyish, graying, criolla blueblood by descent, mixed with Irish from a line of silver-mine magnates: that much he knew from the briefing papers.

It was not too long afterward that Lacey's helmet focused on a Petersburg street and a man, slim and fiftyish with tight-rolled hair and a skin so black it looked purple, who dropped the capsule into a collection box and then thumbed in coins until the postage light glowed green.

She was fiftyish, like Flyter, with some gray in her long black hair, face and hands still smooth, firm.